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No one will deny ( says Socrates ) that some prince might be born with the philosophic nature , and that nature might escape corruption . If only one such should arise , in control of a city which would obey him , he might achieve all ...
No one will deny ( says Socrates ) that some prince might be born with the philosophic nature , and that nature might escape corruption . If only one such should arise , in control of a city which would obey him , he might achieve all ...
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In those first three centuries no line was drawn distinguishing philosophy from the study of Nature . Before Aristotle there were no separate branches of natural science . The word for science ( knowledge , ÉTIOTņun ) was applied rather ...
In those first three centuries no line was drawn distinguishing philosophy from the study of Nature . Before Aristotle there were no separate branches of natural science . The word for science ( knowledge , ÉTIOTņun ) was applied rather ...
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Certainly this was not the aim of natural philosophy in ancient times , which , accordingly , never tried to improve cutlery ... And the construction of machine tools means enlisting the tremendous forces provided by Nature .
Certainly this was not the aim of natural philosophy in ancient times , which , accordingly , never tried to improve cutlery ... And the construction of machine tools means enlisting the tremendous forces provided by Nature .
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The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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